Grid Solutions Engineer

About Ameren Services

About Ameren Services (B&CS) Ameren Services provides administrative support and services to Ameren Corporation and its operating companies, subsidiaries and affiliates. Ameren Services includes a wide range of skill sets and roles, from finance and legal experts to digital and cyber specialists, plus those charged with ensuring environmental compliance and operational safety. Together, we help execute a strategy that enables Ameren to deliver superior long-term value to customers, shareholders and the environment.

Our benefits include:

• Medical coverage on date of hire
• 100% employer paid cash balance pension plan
• 401(k) with company match fully vested on date of hire
• Minimum of 15 days paid vacation and 12 paid holidays
• Paid parental leave and family caregiver leave
• Visit our Benefits & Perks Page for more information on benefits provided to regular full-time employees.

It has never been a more exciting time to work in the energy industry. The electric distribution grid is in transformation into a smarter, more resilient, cleaner, and greener (solar, wind) grid. Advanced systems for grid monitoring and control will be at the forefront of these efforts. This position requires an Engineer to collaborate with a talented team within Digital and Operations to design, implement, and maintain our leading-edge technology suite known as the Distributed Energy Management System (DERMS).

The DERMS platform will be utilized by Ameren's Electrical Distribution Operations and DER teams to manage and orchestrate Distributed Energy Resources (DER) and their connection to the grid. DERs are decentralized electric generators or energy storage technologies connected to the utility grid including solar farms/fields, rooftop solar, battery storage, and wind generators. From a more technical perspective the DERMS platform is designed around hybrid architecture utilizing both cloud and on-premise components.

In addition, the platform will integrate with many other technologies to enable DER Configuration, Forecasting, Optimization and Control. In this position you will be involved in crafting and building the future of electric utility operations. The position leverages a flexible time work schedule that follows a hybrid model: three days a week at Ameren Headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri and two remote days.

The DERMS system will have a 24x7x365 availability requirement and applicants will be required to provide off-hours support as needed. The DERMS system is comprised of a diverse set of technologies including:
Virtual Linux and Windows Servers, Multiple Database technologies (Oracle, SQL Server), Rancher Kubernetes Engine, Palo Alto Firewalls, Mule Soft Enterprise Service Bus, Splunk SIEM, Dynatrace Application Monitoring, GIS Mapping of electrical components to their physical location in ERSI based map systems.

Key responsibilities include:

• Design, develop, and test a Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) across a hybrid cloud/on-premise, container-based architecture.
• Support system implementation activities, including configuration and environment setup across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Support system integration with enterprise and operational technologies, ensuring alignment with utility architecture and compliance requirements.
• Partner with internal business units and external vendors to implement DERMS use cases that enable distributed energy resource integration and grid optimization.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, including system design artifacts, runbooks, and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Transition to ongoing operational support, including monitoring system performance, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring high system availability.
• Deliver continuous improvements through software enhancements, upgrades, and new functionality to meet evolving grid and business needs.

Bachelor's degree required, preferably in engineering, mathematics or computer science

Three or more years of directly related experience required

Experience with Electric Power Distribution systems and applications such as Advanced Distribution Management System, Outage Analysis System, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, GIS Geographic Information Systems, and Electric Circuit Analysis systems preferred

Experience with software applications development, relational databases, and server / network infrastructure preferred